Surviving the Loss of a Child

Surviving the Loss of a Child
Author: Elizabeth B. Brown
Publisher: Revell
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1441207376

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Nothing can steal peace and joy and undermine the very foundation of someone's life like losing a child. It is devastating on a level that most of us can't imagine. Written after the loss of the author's own child, Surviving the Loss of a Child offers encouragement and hope to those who may think they will never be able to live fully after such tragedy. Bereaved parents, as well as friends, counselors, pastors, and caregivers, will find this book a source of comfort and discover coping mechanisms as they move through their grief. Revised and updated, it has short chapters that are easy to take in, perfect for people going through this difficult time.

How to Survive the Loss of a Child

How to Survive the Loss of a Child
Author: Catherine Sanders
Publisher: Harmony
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-08-17
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 030757475X

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"Thank you, Catherine Sanders, for giving us a book that few others could have written. Every page speaks both the depth of your compassion and the breadth of your knowledge. This book will be a wise companion on the difficult journey from loss to recovery." — Robert Kastenbaum, Ph.D., author of The Psychology of Death "How to Survive the Loss of a Child is a godsend to those in the field as well as to those of us in need of such a resource for our own mourning." — Eugene Knott, Ph.D., University of Rhode Island "Dr. Sanders' insights are profound and poignant." — Patricia Geiger, M.D., pediatrician, Boone, North Carolina "Thank you so much for all that you do for bereaved parents but especially for writing How to Survive the Loss of a Child. I know that it has changed lives. It changed mine!" — Nancy Ulmer, bereaved parent, Kindermourn, Charlotte, North Carolina It is only through experiencing grief that bereaved parents ultimately heal. Moving through the phases of grief, the bereaved person works toward restoration. Understanding these phases, knowing what to expect, and learning what they can do to help themselves give parents greater assurance and comfort. In How to Survive the Loss of a Child, Dr. Sanders, a bereaved parent herself, offers grieving parents practical help and emotional support. This book also helps family members, friends, and caregivers relate to grieving parents and aids them, too, in understanding the process of healing through grief.

Surviving My First Year of Child Loss

Surviving My First Year of Child Loss
Author: Nathalie Himmelrich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2017-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9783952452745

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The death of a baby, whether through miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal loss, or the death of an older child, is the worst experience a parent can endure. This book includes twenty-six heart-wrenchingly honest essays by parents who convey their personal challenges and the ways they coped during the first twelve months of child loss.

Upright with Knickers On: Surviving the Death of a Child

Upright with Knickers On: Surviving the Death of a Child
Author: Claye Gina
Publisher:
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781910779569

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Gina Claye, a bereaved mum, shares how she survived the death of her two children: what helped her to keep going, and, after experiencing the pain and despair of traumatic grief, live life again with hope and meaning.

Surviving the Unthinkable

Surviving the Unthinkable
Author: Janice Bell Meisenhelder
Publisher: Mbm Publishers
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2017-01-21
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9780979651120

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Few people understand the grief that comes with losing a child unless they have weathered that situation themselves. Dr. Janice Bell Meisenhelder has suffered through the loss of a child and knows the almost unbearable sorrow a bereaved mother feels. She has created this gentle guide to help mothers deal with their emotions and begin to heal. Her guide starts by describing the initial reactions to loss. She shows you the rhythms of grief and the basic emotions you will feel right after the event. She then moves on to handling anger, guilt, envy, and anxiety. As time passes, Meisenhelder warns about triggers and shows mothers how to handle holidays, birthdays, and family events. She offers advice on how to heal spiritually as well as emotionally. Meisenhelder also prepares you for ?tsunami days,? when the loss suddenly hits you all over again. She guides you through these days and on to the second and third year without your child. She encourages you to find ways to honor your child. In addition to guidance for mothers, Surviving the Unthinkable also contains information for those immediate family and friends who want to understand and support their loved ones during this difficult time.

An Ocean of Grief

An Ocean of Grief
Author: Katie Mattei,
Publisher:
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2017-08-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781543210545

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An Ocean of Grief helps parents and friends navigate the devastating experience of child loss. While grief at times seems too much to bear, this book has proven strategies to learn to survive and live with this unimaginable loss. Written in an easy to read format, both narrative and summary sections offer quick support and helpful information.Dr. Katie Mattei is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 25 years of experience working in the field of child loss and trauma.

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart
Author: Deborah L. Davis
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1996
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781555913021

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Reassurance for parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair after a miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death.

How to Survive the Worst That Can Happen

How to Survive the Worst That Can Happen
Author: Sandy Peckinpah
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2014-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1452582262

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Sandy Peckinpah's sixteen-year old son woke up with a fever and was dead the next morning of bacterial meningitis... her life changed forever. She found herself in the depths of unimaginable despair. Then, someone gave her a journal, and writing opened her journey of self-discovery in learning how to live life without her beautiful child. Words illuminated her path of discovery and she began to document the things that helped her, and others like her, to find resilience. This is a practical, inspirational guide to coping with the many facets of bereavement; learning how to talk about your loss, the aftermath of sorrow, handling fear and anger, helping your living children adjust, strengthening your marriage, experiencing miracles, and the promise that you will regain a quality of life where you'll feel joy once again. If you've lost a child or know someone who has, this story is one you'll relate to and find comfort in knowing you're not alone. Sandy is a mother who has experienced it, and she's a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist(R) from the Grief Recovery Institute(R) in Los Angeles.

Open to Hope

Open to Hope
Author: Gloria Horsley
Publisher: Open to Hope
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2018-08-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781945549106

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Whether a death is sudden or anticipated, losing a loved one shakes us to our very core, destroying our belief in a just, safe, and predictable world. Grief often changes us quickly both physically and mentally. It is like being kidnapped and suddenly transported to a foreign land without luggage, a passport, or the language to make sense of what's happening. Even if you have a road map for getting through the pain and anguish, you still have to take the trip. The purpose of this book is to help you find threads of hope that will assist your recovery and help you carry on. By sharing inspirational stories, personal experiences, and professional advice from contributors to theOpen to Hope website, we trust that you will be comforted and inspired by learning how others dealt with their losses, what they saw as roadblocks, and how they handled them as well as what it has taken for them to not only survive, but thrive. We want to help you resume leading the life that you were meant to live--a life of satisfaction and one driven by a belief in your own personal power for change.

Grieving Parents

Grieving Parents
Author: Kat Biggie Press
Publisher: Kat Biggie Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2014-09-28
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780989934770

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This book is not about one story of loss or one grief therapy approach. This book contains exactly what grieving couples have asked for: what they wanted to know in exactly your situation; what they have mentioned and pointed out they would need or would have needed in that horrendous time of loss. Books written by bereaved parents often follow the formula: "My life was beautiful, then my child or baby died and then my life was never the same again. I had to write a book about it." These books are usually self-therapy, rather than a way to help others. Books by therapists often talk about their work from a theoretical basis that lacks personal experience. They discuss people who experience complicated or chronic grief as opposed to encouraging the resilience that lies within each and every one of us. I have experienced the loss of a child and I am a grief therapist, but this book is not a memoir about my loss. Neither is it just a book written from the perspective of a therapist having worked with countless clients experiencing loss. This book focuses on the effect parental bereavement has on the parents and their relationship. It is about surviving loss as a couple and the re-emerging from grief into a life of joy and melancholy, laughter and tears, happiness and sadness. Not either/or but BOTH/AND. This book will, teach you understanding and acceptance of the grieving process each and everyone chooses. In a relationship, each partner is equally responsible to take part in sailing the ship together. Surviving Loss as a Couple is about how you can re-emerge from this crazy ride through the darkness of grief with renewed depth and understanding with your partner. This book is based on bereaved parents' needs, challenges and what they said has helped them, based on a worldwide survey I have conducted. It contains detailed descriptions of what has helped eighteen individuals and couples that I have interviewed, couples in varying situations and at different stages of their journey with grief.